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Bernadette's account of Bloody Sunday was delivered in low, almost theatrically whispered tones. The day before, though, she was the noisy protagonist of a highly unusual parliamentary drama. To a packed and impassioned Commons, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, who is responsible for Ulster affairs, announced that the government...
The brutality of suppression made heroes and martyrs of the wild-eyed I.R.A. troopers in their makeshift gray-green uniforms and slouch hats. Many of them refused to lay down arms even after partition in 1921. This established the Irish Free State in the South, and in the North left...
The following year, as the attacks increased, the Tans retaliated. On Nov. 1, 1920, Kevin Barry, an 18-year-old medical student and I.R.A. volunteer, was hanged for his role in a Dublin raid. The Tans burned Catholic homes and even fired into a crowd at a football game, killing...
Smarmy beggar, this Marler; one would walk a block out of one's way to cut him dead. Put him down in a maze or a sewer and he would run as hard. Michael's social self is pathological. With colleagues, he does not talk, he connives. As...
The company is now expanding into a potentially rich new area. Aiming to capitalize on the swiftly growing demand for black cosmetics, Johnson Products has begun test-marketing a low-priced line of liquid makeup, face powder and skin cleaner. The items, formulated to complement black skin tones, come in...